Dr. Dan Li, of the Monash University Department of Materials Engineering, and his research team have been working with a material called graphene, which could form the basis of the next generation of ultrafast energy storage systems.
“Once we can properly manipulate this material, your iPhone, for example, could charge in a few seconds, or possibly faster.” said Dr. Li.

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This is amazing if it works. It could change everything. I just want to know why they haven't been studying graphite way before this.

Interesting. I wonder what the total cycle count would be. I'm kinda more interested in the self charging tech being developed. But that being adapted into consumer devices or even being available to the public is likely many years off. This might make it to market faster if it gets enough support.

Absolute silence without compromising performance is my only benchmark score.

It will hopefully be much cleaner than transporting raw material for Li-ion/NiMH cells across entire world and then crowning cars using that stuff as the cleanest option...
Because in this case we're basically talking about two most abundant elements, water and carbon. Not sure what kind of side products will be made during manufacturing process of such cells though.

Absolute silence without compromising performance is my only benchmark score.

In 15-20 years time is my estimation. They are not going to ditch current milking technologies. We could just skip everything known today and release 10GHz graphene CPU's. But why do that if you can make 300 iterations of 200MHz steps, slightly smaller manufacturing processes, make some more 100MHz refreshes of existing stuff. And before you know it, 10 years go by. And they make a fortune out of it. our civilization could be far more advanced already if we weren't bond to the stupid money.
There is even a point where something gets so advanced that money will become a menaingles thing. They'll probably "invent" something else at that point to restrain ourselves.

This tech is nowhere near production. They have no idea how to make these pure carbon structures on a large scale yet. We have known the properties of these structures for quite some time like with buckminsterfullerine. Figuring out how to produce large quantities of it is the struggle right now. Then after they figure out how to do so then they will have to work on how to make connecting structures out of it after they have the pieces to make something. Assemble it with nanomachines? Working with it to create something useful is far off sadly.